fast and curious

April 2016

Ready for a little exercise? I have a couple math puzzle sprints for you today. To get ready, stretch out those brain muscles; we wouldn't want to you strain something. For both of these, set your stopwatch and see how long it takes you.

In each of the blanks, put in a standard mathematical operation (like +, -, ×, /, etc.) to make this equation true. Ready... set... go!

Benjamin Franklin once wrote "Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." He's proven the first part (RIP, Ben!), and the second part is due this Monday 4/18. Good luck!

Personal Finance Tips for Beginnersby Matt Bernstein

Whether you're trying to save for retirement or get out of debt, the essential personal finance advice provided in this course will help you meet your financial goals.

Tax-Efficient Investment Planningby Vince Covino

Make proactive decisions about your taxes! In this course, learn when to pay, when to defer, and how to set up an investment portfolio to maximize net returns.

Basics of Financing & Buying a Homeby Barbara Nevins Taylor

Between fees, paperwork, banks, and brokers, there is a lot of information to process when purchasing a home. Learn everything you need to know about a mortgage in this brief course!

Planning for Retirementby Jeremy Shipp

Retirement planning can be a daunting task. Learn useful, candid information regarding expected income, a mortgage, insurance, inheritance, and more in this course.

Financial Planning for Debt Managementby Focused Spender

If you're buried under student loans and credit card bills, don't despair! Learn steps for becoming debt free! Discover how to build savings and get advice for planning a budget you can stick to, and still enjoy life.

How to Play the Stock Marketby Wall Street Survivor

Demystify the stock market and begin making wise, calculated investments with this course on how to play the stock market.

How to Analyze Stock Market Chartsby The Mindful Share Trader

Become a more informed stock market trader with this course on how to analyze stock market charts.

The air is filled with stump speeches, debates, personal attacks, and convenient pandering. It must be election season! Now, politics has never been known for clarity and transparency; actually, it's quite the opposite. There be secrets in them there elections.

It's now your turn to help figure things out. What political or election-related words have these shorter words secretly stashed inside them?

Happy April 2nd! Today, we mark the passing of April Fool's Day with a celebration of today's day of the month, the mighty 2. It's the atomic number of helium, the only even prime number, the base of binary numbers which make computers possible, and the number of ingredients you need for 7-layer dip if one of the ingredients is 6-layer dip.

And so we celebrate the 2 with this math brain teaser:

How can you use five 2s to make 100? You can use any common mathematical operations but no other numbers (not even 0).

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With a hoe to rake and lessons to take for all I need to know!

Starting an Organic Gardenby GrowOrganic.com

Whether you live in the city or the country, all you need is sunlit ground and basic gardening supplies to cultivate healthy produce!

Vegetable Gardening Tips for Beginnersby Growing Wisdom

Learn how to grow fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic, lettuce, kale, cabbage, and more. Get tips for preventing weeds, and growing veggies in containers and raised beds.

Caring for & Pruning Trees & Shrubsby Cass Turnbull

Shaped your plants to beautifully complement your landscaping! Learn about pruning, bloom seasons, growth, and more when working with evergreen azaleas, camellia plants, lilacs, and other easy-to-prune varieties.

Easy Way to Fill Raised Garden Bedsby Garden Frugal

Gardening is hard work, especially when it comes to filling raised beds with soil! Learn the best way to fill raised beds, along with some irrigation tips.

Sunset's Guide to Container Gardensby Sunset Seminars

Transform any patio into a productive, beautiful container garden. Discover how to navigate the nursery, purchase containers, grow and maintain plants, and harvest edibles!

Composting for Gardenersby Soil to Supper

Learn how to create garden-worthy compost using two effective methods: hot composting and vermiculture composting.

How to Build a Flower Towerby Wet & Forget

You don’t need to be a gardening expert to have a beautiful vertical garden. This lesson shows you how to build a flower tower just in time for spring.